Festival talks by Katrin Himmler

Katrin Himmler is a German author and political scientist. Her great-uncle was Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, and one of the principle architects of the Holocaust. Katrin has confronted her family legacy with a book, Die Brüder Himmler, translated into English as ‘The Himmler Brothers. A German Family History’. She has also edited, together with the historian Michael Wildt, private letters from Himmler that had been only recently discovered in Israel. The Private Heinrich Himmler: Letters of a Mass Murderer was published in the UK last year. In conversation with James Holland, she will discuss Himmler, his brothers, and reveal the burden of this Nazi family legacy.

PROFILE: Katrin Himmler

Katrin Himmler is a German author and political scientist. Her great-uncle was Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Police and the Gestapo, who was the chief perpetrator of the Holocaust. In 2005 she published a book about the legacy of her family history, Die Brüder Himmler, translated into English as ‘The Himmler Brothers. A German Family History’ (2007). In 2014 she edited, together with the historian Michael Wildt, private letters from Himmler, that have been found only recently in Israel: Himmler privat, translated into English as ‘The private Heinrich Himmler. Letters of a Mass Murderer’ (2016).